The Reagan Show (2017)

The Reagan Show is an all-archival documentary about the original performer-president’s role of a lifetime.

Teasing apart the spectacle at the heart of finger-on-the-button global diplomacy, the film follows Ronald Reagan's rivalry with charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tracing how the Communicator-in-Chief uses his public relations chops to overcome Soviet mistrust, the objections of a skeptical press corps and the looming threat of WW III.

Chock full of wit and political irony, and told solely through 1980s network news and videotapes created by the Reagan administration itself, the film explores Reagan’s made-for-TV approach to politics as he faced down the United States’ greatest rival.

Bastards of Utopia (2010)

(54 min - co-directed with Maple Razsa)

Three Croatian activists struggle to change the world. As children, they lived through the violent collapse of Yugoslavia. But now, amid the aftershocks of socialism's failure, they fight in their own way for a new leftism. In the middle of the struggle, a skeptical American is won over by their cause and even goes to jail with them. The activists, whether clashing with police or squatting in an old factory, risk everything to live their politics. But as the setbacks mount, will they give up the fight?

The film, shot during years of fieldwork with a Croatian anarchist collective, applies EnMasseFilm's unique blend of observation, direct participation and critical reflection to this misunderstood political movement. Its portrayal of activism is both empathetic and unflinching—an engaged, elegant meditation on the struggle to re-imagine leftist politics and the power of a country's youth.

Orphans of Mathare (2004)

(60 min - co-directed with Randy Bell)

The film examines the lives of former street children now living at the Good Samaritan Children's Home, an orphanage and school in the sprawling Mathare slum of Nairobi, Kenya. These children, many orphaned by HIV/AIDS, slipped through the fraying net of Kenyan family structures and social services. They sniffed glue, scoured trash bins for food, and slept under cars until they were brought to the Home. By following their lives at the orphanage, the film lays bare the complicated relationship between poverty, violence, disease, Christianity, tradition and the orphan crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Occupation (2002)

(45 min - co-directed with Maple Razsa)

A dynamic story of how students and immigrant janitors took on one of the most powerful corporations in the world, the film documents a sit-in by the Harvard Living Wage Campaign. The campaign won unprecedented gains for low-wage workers at the world's richest university and catapaulted the living wage movement to the center of public attention. The film is narrated by Ben Affleck.